Well said. Dantonio does the Dantonio-dick thing - not content to simply smush us, he takes every opportunity to take more gratuitous shots at the program - and Hoke apologizes. What a chump. As bad as the on field performance was, THIS was the most embarrassing aspect of the weekend.

I'd be happy to read about this in the weekly recruiting update. But offers to random 3-stars who are unlikely to come to Michigan don't qualify as something that shoudl be the first thing I see when I come to the MGoBlog page. This is not big news deserving its own headline.

I am pondering driving up from Washington DC, and am wondering how bad traffic is on again day. Google maps suggest it's about a 3 1/2 hour drive, but I'm sure it takes much longer to get in given all of the game day traffic. I welcome any tips from folks who have done the road trip before. Thanks!

...what the heck was he doing up in East Lansing right after the Minnesota game? The article says he got pulled over at 1:33am on November 4th.

The team started the day in Minnesota whupping the Gophers, and while he didn't play (ulnar nerve boo-boo), he was on the sideline. So he flew back with the team, then jumped on the road and went to East Lansing?

Note that I'm not questioning the guy's right to be up there -- just curious as to what was worth driving up for? It's not like he's a popular guy in that town.

...was that Borges put Devin in. Denard has been plagued all year by "good Denard/bad Denard" moments -- largely related to what kind of momentum he has. This has been particularly true with his longer downfield throws.

So the moment he completed the long pass to Roundtree, I said to my buddy "that was beautiful! Good Denard is emerging!" And then he gets pulled at QB the very next play. I can't think of any better way to kill the guy's positive momentum than to pull him just as he is getting going.

While the announcers kept complaining about using Devin in the MSU game (why pull your best player off the field?), I had no problem putting Devin in there, as Denard's passing was awful. But in this game -- man, this was not the time to pull him.

I never minded the yellow piping of the Henne days, but the yellow side panels looked cheesy. With a classic uniform like Michigan's, why add such a tacky element? If it wasn't for the classic helmets, I'd say we looked like a crappy Big East school.

Makes me wish I was there. Between the Denard love for Michigan and the Freep diss, what a wonderful moment.

Now hopefully Hoke can figure out a way to tweak his offense to take advantage of Denard's talents. As much as I loved RR's offense, one limitation was that it didn't train it's QB to be ready for the NFL (see Pat White's one and done career), which I found sad given our long streak of placing QBs in the pros. If Hoke can fuse Denard into something that both utilizes his speed and also has elements of a pro-style offense, we'll kick ass and get him ready to QB at the next level.

I figured they'd be full of old fuddy-duddies, but I was sitting just a couple rows in front of them in section 41 and loved that the folks in front were banging hard on the old maize "halo" on key plays. The banging on the metal made a helluva racket.

When I went down there a few years ago (2004 I think) for the Michigan-Indiana game, the stadium was half empty and it was almost embarrassing how quiet it was. I was sitting toward the top of the stadium and IU fans at the bottom kept looking up at me annoyed that i was cheering so loudly for Michigan.

The fact that they could hear me from where I was sitting pretty much told you all you needed to know about IU's crowd noise.

...I recall Brian specifically writing that he had to change the shirt after getting an email from Irish lawyer types and deciding that the legal costs of fighting any challenge from them would significantly exceed the potential profits from the shirt.

...albeit without the fancy logo graphic. Our RA posted some signs over the urinals asking us to aim carefully after some idiots kept pissing on the floor. We fired back with signs including "Shake," "Please do not fart if a fellow resident is next to you," and "If you tap more than twice, you playin'!"